NLeigh's Timeline
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NLeigh — 24/11/2017
YOU GUYS. THIS GREEN. I CANNOT. This might be the first time I'm more in love with the back of my hair than the front, lol! As I mentioned in my first photo, that's a combo of a bunch of Bright Yellow and a little bit of Alpine Green. What I didn't mention is that, whereas the front green was formed by this mixture over faded MP After Midnight Blue, *this* green was created by the mixture layered over very, very faded green. (Which, I think, was itself originally Bright Yellow + MP Enchanted Forest.) I love this green so much I want to marry it! I like the way my back undercut turned out as well. It's a mixture of Bright Yellow, French Cognac, and Flame. I wanted a brighter-than-normal ginger color, and I got pretty much exactly what I wanted, yay! (And how about that blast of super-bright red? I didn't do anything unusual with that part except that my red mixture went over very faded Flame, which I think made this red far brighter than the rest of my hair.)
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Adore French Cognac -
Brite Yellow -
Directions Alpine Green -
Flame
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NLeigh — 24/11/2017
Wanted to show off the fun gold color I got in my side cuts, in addition to the deep red. The gold is a combination of a bunch of Bright Yellow and a small bit of Flame. (And still no bleach, btw! I'm super impressed it was this bright.) The deep red is a combo of Ion Garnet and Radiant Raspberry, rather than Red. The deepness is exactly why I added the Radiant Raspberry. I love it!
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Brite Yellow -
Flame -
Red (Ion Color Brilliance)
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NLeigh — 24/11/2017
Christmas hair! Yes, I decided to dye it right after Thanksgiving ended, lol. The red is a combination of Ion Garnet and Radiant Raspberry (rather than red), though I didn't add the Radiant Raspberry to my bangs because they were already purple. (And you can see they're very burgundy!) The green is a combination of Bright Yellow and a rather small amount of Alpine Green, layered over very faded MP After Midnight Blue and silver roots. I love the resulting mix of green shades (though wait till you see the back of my hair, omg).
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Brite Yellow -
Directions Alpine Green -
Red (Ion Color Brilliance)
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NLeigh — 26/9/2017
So part of the reason I'm still a-rainbow is because I decided not to worry about my roots. Or rather, I'm not worried about *bleaching* them. Today I decided to soften my roots with straight developer rather than bleach them before refreshing my color (and risk messing up my rainbow, or at least having to re-dye it tediously). I think this worked better in some places than in others. You can see what I mean here about my back undercut... what would you even call this color? It's almost a dark mauve, LOL. If that's even a thing? I love the shadow effect in the top of my hair though. I've got a good inch of roots and I've decided to embrace them. (I did dye over them... but I'm not gonna fool anyone, they'll all know that's my natural hair and that I'm shockingly not a natural rainbowhead. *gigglesnort*)
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Brite Yellow -
Directions Dark Tulip -
Flame -
Manic Panic After Midnight Blue -
Manic Panic Enchanted Forest -
Manic Panic Shocking Blue -
Manic Panic Vampire Red -
Plum (Punky)
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NLeigh — 26/9/2017
This is probably the longest I've managed to hang onto a rainbow with approximately the same mix of colors. I did try to deepen several of them. I switched my undercuts to Dark Tulip, although since I didn't rebleach it doesn't look very typically Dark Tulip-y! The sides look more pink and the back looks... I don't even know what color to call it LOL. Anyway. I tried Punky Flame for the first time for my orange because I ran out of Apricot and decided to try something different. I wasn't thrilled with how it looked in the pot or processing, but I'm glad I didn't panic because I love the golden pumpkin tone. I mixed Bright Yellow and Flame to make a more golden color for the yellow, mixed Yellow with just a smidge of Enchanted Forest for the lime green, and mixed After Midnight Blue with Shocking Blue because I wanted a deep, royal blue. I used Vampire Red straight. The purple is primarily a mix of Dark Tulip and Punky Plum, but it has various other tones in it because I layered some of the mix over some faded red from my previous rainbow, and some of it over faded blue.
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Brite Yellow -
Directions Dark Tulip -
Flame -
Manic Panic After Midnight Blue -
Manic Panic Enchanted Forest -
Manic Panic Shocking Blue -
Manic Panic Vampire Red -
Plum (Punky)
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NLeigh — 26/9/2017
Sorry for the creepy serial killer stare, lol, but this photo shows off the redder side really well. You can also get a good look at the golden yellow and the lovely pumpkin-y orange.
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Brite Yellow -
Directions Dark Tulip -
Flame -
Manic Panic After Midnight Blue -
Manic Panic Enchanted Forest -
Manic Panic Shocking Blue -
Manic Panic Vampire Red -
Plum (Punky)
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NLeigh — 24/8/2017
Got a haircut (haven't had the top of my hair cut for about 3 months, haha) and I changed the color of my undercut. I thought I needed more purple. :) It's been almost a month since I did my rainbow and all the original colors are still going strong!
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Directions Dark Tulip -
Plum (Punky)
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NLeigh — 1/8/2017
And lastly, who doesn't love a good doggie photobomb? XD
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NLeigh — 1/8/2017
This photo a) makes me laugh and b) actually shows the colors (including that pesky green) better than any of the others, even if it's buried in shadow. So, win-win? :P
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Brite Yellow -
Directions Dark Tulip -
Manic Panic After Midnight Blue -
Plum (Punky) -
Special Effects Cherry Bomb
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NLeigh — 1/8/2017
This is what I call my "Rainbow Macaw" hair because that's what it looks like to me, lol. I hope you can see the green -- you can see it on my phone but I'm not seeing it very well on my computer! Basically what I did was divide the top of my hair into thirds, like a pie. I did red, blue, and yellow in those "thirds." Then I took a slice of the yellow and the red and rubbed them together to make orange; I did the same with the yellow and the blue (though now I wish I'd done more because that green is SO hard to photograph, argh) to make green. For the purple, I was planning to do the same, but I wasn't sure it would work quite as well since blue and red don't traditionally mix to make pretty purples. So, using the same mix I used for purple in my last color scheme, I just painted a slice straight purple. My undercuts were a strange tale. The side undercuts, and the underlayer of my bangs, bleached beautifully. My back undercut... mmmm, not so much. Was very brassy! So my original idea was to dye it all turquoise, but since the back undercut was so brassy I knew it wouldn't look right, possibly greenish. I changed the plan to make the back dark blue and the sides and bangs turquoise. You can't see the undercuts here at all but the underlayer of my bangs look kinda lilac-y here, rather than turquoise. (I assume the red runoff got it.) But I like it anyway. I'll upload a couple other photos so you can see my sidecuts. GEEZ this was long-winded, congratulations if you read it all LOL
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Brite Yellow -
Directions Dark Tulip -
Manic Panic After Midnight Blue -
Plum (Punky) -
Special Effects Cherry Bomb
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NLeigh — 1/8/2017
All the previous colors verrrry faded. I think I took this photo yesterday morning, basically as a "before" photo. My undercuts were so overgrown (how do they get so long between haircuts?! lol) and thanks to my serious case of bedhead, you can't tell how long my roots are. (Nearly 2 inches long!!) I think the last time I bleached my roots was in May. Maybe earlier. Long story short: my hair needed helllllp XD
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Natural (No Product Used)
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NLeigh — 1/8/2017
I did this back at the end of June and completely forgot to upload the photo here (d'oh!). I was tired of silver & decided to go in a totally new direction. Used mostly the Creamtones Fleurs du Mal for the pink with a tiny bit of Fuschia Shock to punch it up. The Apricot made the orange on top (it was covering up faded pink, that's why it looks so dark), and the purple was a mixture of Dark Tulip and Plum, which basically became my favorite purple ever.
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Directions Apricot -
Directions Dark Tulip -
Fuschia Shock -
Manic Panic - Creamtones Fleurs du Mal -
Plum (Punky)
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